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Date Posted: 16:35:08 04/15/10 Thu
Author: CIndy (Wardlaw) Crohn
Subject: My Book

Hey, everyone. Just thought I�d let you know--- Last fall I finished and
self-published a book, OUT FROM UNDER THE KUDZU. It�s a memoir of growing up in
Mississippi (mostly) and my years at college and as a young faculty wife.

My daughter wrote:

�In her compelling memoir, Cindy Crohn (born Lucinda Lee Wardlaw) records life
in Mississipp in the early 20th century, from her earliest recollections of
small-town Pontotoc, to her itinerant youth as her father sought work around the
time of the Second world War, to her life as music student at Mississippi
Southern College during its attempted integration. Crohn paints an era many know
about from histories of the Civil Rights struggle, but few understand as it was
lived in a quotidian sense, by people trying to get by in a time of seismic
change. The difficulties she and her eventual husband face surmounting their
families� religious differences�difficulties exacerbated by Harris Crohn�s
growing desperation as a Jewish alien in a strange land�nearly forestall the
story�s hopeful culmination. Crohn remembers the characters who peopled that
land, and the ill-fated souls (like Clyde Kennard, the black student whose
attempt to matriculate at Mississippi Southern landed him in prison, and P.D.
East, the author and publisher of an anti-racist newspaper who eventually found
himself unable to make a living) who weren�t so lucky.�

Well, she makes it sound grander than it is, but we must remember she is a proud
daughter!!

This was written for my grandchildren, and now I�m selling the remainders. If
you�d like a copy, please contact me, hcrohn8161@charter.net They are $14
each.

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